It sounds strange to be world champion at the Crucible.

I've always been one of the best players with the rest but I'd rather be able to reach the shot without it.

I did abuse the game a bit because I didn't give it the respect sometimes.

If you're playing the best of 19, and it's 7-7 and there's only five frames left, you tend to take a few more chances.

I had such fun, even though I can't remember much.

I have been tamed. My party days are well and truly behind me.

Everyone wants to be with someone.

Ronnie Wood's my good mate, I'm godfather to his twins.

In the past I'd lose and not talk for a few days. I'd become strange. Difficult to live with.

Testicular cancer occurs in young men, just the people who don't bother much about their health.

I love life.

My eyes are fine.

Snooker is not like boxing or football - you can go on longer.

I have only prepared properly for the World Championship three or four times in my life. If I had gone about it professionally I would have won the title 10 times.

The Queen is a true professional and calmly pinned my MBE on.

Within a day of wearing the insoles, my feet felt more comfortable, and a week later I was able to go for walks, play golf, and play football with my son, which I hadn't for years. The insole is sculpted to the foot and manipulates it into the correct position, preventing damage to the plantar fascia tissue.

If I ever leave home without my insoles, I send someone for them because after a day the pain starts to return.

Snooker lifted me out of depression.

I got to 16st when it became painful for me to walk.

I've had my dark days, but I wasn't really a hell-raiser as such.

Believe me, I feel the same way now about snooker as I did when I was 13.

If Ding keeps performing the way he has been doing then it is inevitable the World Championship will go to his country.

Ding has a fantastic all-round game. His temperament is also at a very high level.

Ronnie is the greatest player to have ever picked up a snooker cue. People have said that about me. But although I won 50 or so tournaments I never picked up the world championship. That was a little bit of a disappointment.